PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind, New York Times In The Popular Press: Risky Rats Give Clues on Brain Circuitry Behind Taking a Chance, New York Times They Said it Couldn’t Be Done: Teaching Robots Good Taste, Quartz Brain-Zapping Headphones Could Make You a Better Athlete, MIT Technology Blog Hunting the Genetic Signs of Postpartum Depression With an iPhone App, New York Times The Man Who Fought a Bull with Mind Control, Discover Magazine Machine Unlearning, The Atlantic Study Finds Mindfulness Meditation Offers Relief for Low-Back Pain, NIH The Science of Crying, Time Magazine When it Comes to Issues of Identity and Authenticity in DBS, Let Patients Have a Voice, The Neuroethics Blog Cognitive Science Suggests the Way We Use Smartphones is Making Us Feel Powerless, Quartz The Secrets to a Happy Life, From a Harvard Study, New York Times A Neural Pathway that Erases Memories, The Guardian What China’s Latest Five-Year Plan Means for Science, Nature News A Detached Sense of Self Associated with Altered Neural Responses to Mirror Touch, The Neurocritic Texas Woman is the First Person to Undergo Optogenetic Therapy, MIT Technology Blog In the Academic Literature: Memory Retrieval by Activating Engram Cells in Mouse Models of Early Alzheimer’s Disease, Nature Magazine A Specific Area of Olfactory Cortex Involved In Stress Hormone Responses to Predator Odours, Nature Magazine 3D Printing of Layered Brain-Like Structures Using Peptide Modified Gellan Gum Substrates, Biomaterials Brain-Wide Mapping of Neural Activity Controlling Zebrafish Exploratory Locomotion, eLife Association Between Social Media Use and Depression Among U.S. Young Adults, Depression and Anxiety Reconstruction of Spatial Thermal Gradient Encoded in Thermosensory Neuron AFD in Caenorhabditis elegans, Journal of Neuroscience The Anatomy of Suffering: Understanding the Relationship between Nociceptive and Empathic Pain, Trends in Cognitive Sciences Tuning Eye-Gaze Perception by Transitory STS Inhibition, Cerebral Cortex

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